Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communication Socialist Republic Presenter: Tran Xuan Dung

Topic

Internet Access in Viet Nam

At WorhShop

Internet Accessibility in Asia-Pacific Region

Organized by

Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning on 4th of September 2013 in Seoul (Korea)

Hoang Sa

Islands and Archipelago of Vietnam as Hoang Sa, Truong Sa, Con Dao, Phu Quoc,

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Truong Sa

I. General information Vietnam sovereign territory is uniform Its includes land from Mong Cai to Ca Mau, on the sea of more than 4,000 islands, large and small of reefs, near and far from the shore, with inland waters, territorial sea, economic prerogative and shelf, the Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelago, Phu Quoc and Con Dao island .... With geographic place of Vietnam located the eastern of Indochina Peninsula, in Southeast Asia, the north bordered China, the west to Laos and Cambodia and south west to Gulf of Thailand. Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups with population in 2011as 87.84 million people, in 2012 as 88.78 million people, estimated in 2013 is 89.57. http://www.gopfp.gov.vn/c/journal_articles/view_article_cont ent?groupId=18&articleId=474919&version=1.0. 11/7/2013, Source: General office for Population and Family Planning, Report results of the national target program on Population and Family Planning of 2011, 2012 and estimated 2013. General office for Statistics 1st April 2012, 27.888,2 million respectively 31.75% urban population, 59,951,8 millions respectively 68,25% rural population. Rate sexual 97,9% (man /100 woman). II. Internet in Vietnam Vietnamese had connected international internet network in 1997, development policies of information and communication from urban to rural, mountainous, islands had been performed. In the last years, the internet in Vietnam has grown in all regions of the country. With many forms of internet access, users can connect through: -Use cable ADSL technology (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) + Coaxial cable, fiber optic cable (of the telecommunications network).
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+ Coaxial cable (the network of media: television, ...). - wireless: 3G, mobilephone, ... Users can access the internet without having to pay fees or charges depending on their usage needs. Example, free for internet access at points such as hotels, restaurants, coffee shop, supermarkets, airports, universities, etc. ... - Internet development plan to 2010: In 2006, Prime Minister issued Decision No. 32/2006/Q-TTg dated February 07th 2006 regarding development planning of Vietnamese Internet and Telecommunications in 2010 with targets: Implementation universalize Internet to all regions of the country to increasing service and quality +Internet subscription density get from 8 to 12 Subscription /110 (therein 30% are broadband subscribers). + Ratio of Internet users get 25% to 35% of the population. + Insure the majority of apparatchik, official, officer, teacher, doc, college students and college, professional secondary school students and universal secondary school students have conditions use Internet. + To promote universalize Internet to all communes in the nationwide. To 2010, insure that 70% of communes had public Internet access points, 100% of districts and communes in the focal point economic areas provided broadband Internet services. + Insure that all ministries, branch, state administrative agencies, provincial governments and district to be broadband Internet connection and connect to the wide area network of the Government; + 100% research institutes, universities, colleges, professional secondary school and universal secondary school connected to
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broadband Internet access, upon 90% of middle schools, hospitals connected to the Internet. Statistical development of information an d communication: + Vietnams Media present have four types of Press as Print, Radio, Television and Electron. Vietnam had jacked into the international internet on 1997 and this year more than ten, quantity of Electronic Press, Pages of Electronic information was born. Statistics in February 2013, Vietnam with 812 Press offices, include the 1084 Printed matter and 615 Magazine. There are 67 Radio Television Stations, include two Central Television Stations (VTV, VTC); one Radio Station (VOV) and 64 Locally Radio and Television Stations. There are 74 of Electronic Press and Journals; 336 Social Networks; 1174 Pages of Synthetic Electronic Information. Day 11 October 2010, Ministry of information and communications of the Social Republish of Vietnam preconize result of popular inquiry for telephonic services; Internet; Audiovisual. The results showed that the difference between urban and rural are quite large. Assessment Report of telecommunication infrastructure during past time has been attend to investment and development. Percentage of households using mobile phones, Binh Duong province is leading with 57% ; Ho Chi Minh City 54% ; Da Nang 47% ... The national average is 12.6% of households have personal computers, but only 1.6 million households connected to the Internet. The development of the telecommunications field, the Internet in the first six months of 2012. Infrastructure of Telecommunications network, the Vietnam Internet continues
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to invest strongly development, especially with 3G mobile networks. Development amount of new telephonic subscribers in the first six month of 2012 was estimated at 5498,9 thousand subscribers, increase 17.8% compared to the same time of 2011, including + 13,7 thousand fixed subscribers, + 5485.2 thousand mobile subscribers. The number of new domains increased stability development. To 31/5/2012 have 32 220 domain names, bringing the total number of traditional domain names. "VN" is over 202 374 names. (Source: Preliminary report on the management of state 6 months and plan for the last 6 months of 2012). As reported by VNNIC, the end of 2012, Vietnam has 31,196,878 Internet users, occupy rate 35.49% of the population. Compared with 2000, the number of Internet users in Vietnam has increased more than 15 times. Besides, Vietnam social networks is rather popular, with about 10 million people have used Facebook, online shopping community of 500,000 people, there are 1/3 population of Vietnam see the Internet is indispensable in life daily.

Vietnam leader of users and ranks No. 2 on the growth of Internet users (source: comScore)
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II I.

Inadequacies

Complex issues and crimes related to Internet such as take videos, sex pictures, problems of terrorist and crime in youth through the Internet, online scams, lure such as the buying and selling commodity, financial, prostitution, cheated, cheated money, robbery, rape, murder, human trafficking across the border, data theft, theft nickname, email stolen ... network attacks, spamming, advertising, copyright, ... interposes many problems need to discuss. IV . Regulation of legal for internet

- Press Law, the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Press Law No.12/1999/QH10 12 June 1999 passed by the National Assembly of Vietnam Socialist Republic on 28 December 1989 . - Decree No.51/2002/ND-CP, Decree of the Government, April 26, 2002, detail stipulating of the implementation of Press Law, reform Law, supplementing a number of articles of the Press Law. - Advertising Law No.16/2012/QH13, this law has been passed by the National Assembly of Vietnam Socialist Republic, 21 June 2012. Laws effectiveness performance from 1 January 2013. The law stipulating about advertising activities, rights and obligations of organizations and individuals participate in promotional activities, state management of advertising activities. Information float political outside governing scope of this Law. - Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP, Decree of the Government 15 July 2013, the management, provision and using of internet services and online information. This Decrees effectiveness form 1 September 2013. Decree No.97/2008/ND-CP August
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28th 2008 of the Government of the management, provision and using of Internet services and electronic information on the Internet was expired from the date this Decree effectiveness. V. Development Policies Management and development of Vietnamese internet - controlled by IP address management - Mechanism, Legal Normative - Cooperation , link, coordination, education, communication and processing crime in internet with range of nationality and international. - Civic education in schools. -Training of inspection, testing, monitoring, treatment of central and local (every year, organize by the Ministry of Information and Communications) for internet activity - Moral education, traditional culture. - July 27, 2012, the Prime Minister signed Decision No. 32/2012/QD-TTg of approval the development plan of national telecommunications in 2020 with a target of Internet development To 2015 : + Subscription rate of fixed broadband Internet from 6-8 subscribers per 100 population and the ratio of mobile broadband subscribers 20-25 subscribers per 100 people + Percentage of households with Internet access 15-20% ; rate of Internet users 40-45% population; + Over 90% of communes have in providing public telecommunications services ar e broadband Internet connection; To 2020 : + Subscription rate of fixed broadband Internet 15-20 subscribers per 100 population and the ratio of mobile broadband subscribers 35-40 subscribers per 100 people; + Percentage of households with Internet access 35-40% ; rate of Internet users 55-60% ;
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+ 100% of communes have in providing public telecommunications services ar e broadband Internet connection; - Project on Development of Rural Information and Communication period 2011 - 2020 VNNIC and NTT Communications cooperate to build international connections for national IPv6 test network. - The program provides public telecommunications services period 2011 2015. - Planning develop national safety information safety to 2020.